The Wheeling daily intelligencer. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1865-1903, 1887-12-07
INCREASES THE COST OF LIVING.

1SCnEAsEs THE COST OF LIVING.
To these tbs appeal is made to save
their employment and maintain their
wages by resiating a change. There
should BIO no disposition to auswer ouch
suggestions by the allegation that they
are in minority among those who labor,
and, therefore, should iorego an advantage,
ia the inherent Of low pricee, for the 1pen
or Tor the majority. Their compensation,
as i may be affected by tho operation OF
turiff |swe, should st oil timer DO ecrupu-
lcuely kept in view, and yet with slight
reflection they will not overlook the fact
that they are Corauners with the rest.
That they. too, have their own wants and
those OF their families to supply from
their earnings, and that tho price OF The
necesshrien Of life, rs we'll as tho amount
Of their Wages, will regulate the measure
Of their welfare and comfort. But tho re-
arction of taxation demanded should be
90 measured az not to necesaitate or justify
either the loss OF employment by the
workingman nor the lesacning OF his
wsgee; and the profits still re-
EailiEg to the manufacturer, Of.
ter necessary readjustnent, should
furnish no excuse for the sacrifice OF the
interests OF his employee other in their
opportunity to work or in the dininution
Of their compensation. Nor can the
worker in manufacturer fail to understand
that whils high tariff is claimed to BIZ
necessary to allow the payment OF re-
munerstive wages, It certainly results in o
very large inc toaso in the price OF nearly
all eorts OF manufactures, which, In almost
countless forms, he needs for the use OF
himself and bis family. He receives at
the daek OF his employer his wages, and
perhaps before he reaches his home Is
Obliged, for5coth in purchase for family
use Of an article, which embraces his own
labor, to return in the payment OF the In
crease in price which the tariff permits,
the hard earned compensation OF many
days Of toll. ).
THE WOOL TARIFF.
The farmer and the agriculturist who
manufacture nothing, but who pay the in.
creased price, which the tariff imposes
upon every agricultural implement, upon
all he wears and upon all he uses and
ownB, except the increase Of his aocEs and
herds and such things as his husbandry
produces from the soil ia invited to aid in
maintaining the present situation and he
is told that high duty on imported wool
is necessary for the benefit Of those who
have sheep to shear in order that the
price Of their wool may be increased.
| They, Of course are not reminded that tho
farmer who has no sheep is by this
scheme obliged in his purchases OF cloth.
ing and Woolen good9 to pay tribute to
his fellow farmer as we'll % the manufac.
turers and merchant; nor is any mention
made ct the iact that the sheep has
owuer5 themselves and their households
muBt wear clothing and use other articles
manufactured from tho wool they sell at
terif prices and thus as Gonbumers must
return their share OF the increased price to
the brakeman, think it may be fairly as.
sumsd that large proportion OF the sheep
ownedb by the farmers throughoutthe coun'
try are found in small accks numbering
from twenty-five to fifty. The duty on
the gfaGe OF imported wool which
thess pheep yield Is ton cents each
pound II OF tho value OF thirty cent? O,
less, and twelve cents il OF the value Of
more thru thirty cents. II the liberal ea
innate OF ak pounds be allowed for esch
fleece, the du y thereon would DO sixty Of
seventy.two cants, and this may be taken
as the utmost enhancement Of ita price te
the farmer by ROBSON Of this duty
Eighteen do'lars would thus represent thu
incrcsced price Of tho wool from twenty
two ahssp and thirty.eix dollars tina
from tho wool OF fifty sheep; and ct pres
ent values this addition would amount t
about one.third Of Ito price. y If upon thu
sale the farmer receives this OF a les
arif profit, the wool leaves his hand
charged wiki precisely that sum, which
in all its changes will adhere 10 it until
reaches the consumer. SO
i When manufactured into cloth an,
other goods and material for use, it's coe
10 not only Increased to the extent c
! the farmers tariff profit, but further eur
d has been added for the beneii. OF the mar
ufacturer under the operation Of othe
tariff laws. In the meantime the day al